I don’t know what Big Love is. A TV show I assume? Oh Goodwin is a cutie pie, no doubt about that, and I hope to see a lot of her in the future, just as long as I never see her playing a character like this ever again. I thought at first that her adorable looks, bright eyes and infectious smile might temper my disgust with the character, but it didn’t. They probably made it worse, since I wanted to like her so much, but she couldn’t stop being a moron. Just when she seemed to be getting a clue, and turning into a real person, zoom, off she’d go again into idiot land.
But I do want to make clear that I don’t blame an actor/actress for a character I hate (usually) and I especially don’t blame Ginnifer Goodwin for this one. She did what the script called for and did it well. I think it’s cool that she’s an unknown (generally unknown) who got to do this movie with all these other big name actors, and was pretty much the lead and the main focus of the film. Good for her.
My only problem with casting was continually wondering why Jennifer Garner wasn’t playing Ben Affleck’s wife. He and Jennifer Aniston had zero chemistry, and I never could figure out why this guy was so devoted to her. But, it would have been smoking hot and understandable if he had been playing against someone sweet and beautiful and down-to-earth, that he also really truly loved. It would have elevated the movie for me.
Do you mean that a lying bitch of a daughter is a novel concept, or Liam Neeson kicking ass?
We just saw Taken, and in the long history of predictable, formulaic action revenge films, this one was the most predictable, most formulaic. Neeson was fine, but i sort of felt sorry for him because the movie was so appalling. I’m sure they used an Automatic Script Generator.
As I have pointed out here many a time, both Alien and Gattaca are incredibly stupid movie, both requiring that everyone involved be a complete and utter moron.
I have never read this book so I don’t know what I’m talking about, but I thought that what I picked up through auditory Oprah osmosis (TV on in the background) that the gist was that ‘hey, quit screwing around trying to figure out a guy that really just doesn’t want to date you because life is not that complicated.’ Am I wrong? Your description sounds like it is one of those “The Rules” type books. Have I cast my admiration in the wrong place? Because what I thought it was about sounded like a pretty good advice.
Also, is this writer the same buy that has an annoying talk show that is on at something like 3 in the morning?
Liam Neeson kicking ass. He’s kicked ass in other movies, Excalibur, Rob Roy, Gangs of New York, others I can’t think of off the top of my head, but not like this. This was true modern ass-kicking and it was cool to watch, even though he would have been thrown into a maximum-security prison for the next 500 years in the real world. And could they have gotten a worse actress to play his daughter? I hated her, and didn’t believe for a second that he really loved her, she and Neeson had ZERO chemistry, but Liam Neeson was such a good actor and so professional he went above and beyond what the script called for in trying to make us believe he’d go through all this for her.
Oh yeah yeah yeah, exactly! I swear to god, I said the same thing! I leaned over to my friend and said, this is like they put some plot points into a computer program that then spit out this script! He agreed wholeheartedly. I hope Neeson got a paid a lot for it. He earned it.
Heh. I haven’t seen the movie yet, but your description is exactly what I was expecting from the trailer, in which all the characters are already seen acting stupidly. I think that’s the point - to laugh at the stupid thing people do when they are dating.
I just wanted to drop in to say that it is unfortunate that this attitude is not adopted universally. Have you thought about writing an advice book for married women?
laugh I wouldn’t presume. We are, and our relationship is, unlike any I’ve ever known or heard about. And by the way, that was truly a joke, with no truth at the core. My husband would never expect sex as a penance. That’s a game too, and we don’t play relationship games, even in jest.
Right. And by the end they’ve all learned and grown and Come To Understand What They’re Doing Wrong, but it was all so distasteful to me that the end didn’t redeem anything. I still wanted to smack most of them.
I’m assuming you mean Shallow Hal. I liked it. It’s actually got a pretty good message. I don’t remember laughing hysterically or anything, but I was pleasantly surprised.
My nomination for horrible (most recent) movie I’ve seen is A Lot Like Love with Ashton Kutcher. I consider him a decent actor, liked Guess Who quite a bit, was impressed by Butterfly Effect. A friend loaned it to us, a friend whose judgment we trusted. I’m pretty sure I made it to the end, but only to sort of prove how tough I am. Oh so boring, oh so nauseating, with terrible chemistry between the main characters. I hate romantic comedies as a general rule.
Also, I think Gattica is a damn good movie.
I know most of the people in CS are finely-tuned, sharply-honed critics, but I just like movies. It takes a lot for me to say, ‘‘What a piece of shit.’’
I remember sitting in History 150 while the girl in front of me was reading He’s just not… and being appalled at what was written (and by a guy!!?!!?!). For those who don’t know it goes something like this:
*If you are dating and the guy doesn’t compliment your necklace after 1 hour he’s not that into you…break up
If you meet a guy and he looks at your friend first, then you, says hi to you, looks back at your friend, then gives you his number…he likes your friend more…don’t date him.
If your boyfriend gives you less than 6 roses on your third date…he’s not that into you…break up.*
They are absolute crap “laws”. It teaches a girl to nitpick every freakin thing a guy does and then not date/break up cuz we are apparently not in to you girls…God it’s stupid.
I must be a bad mid-twenties kid cuz I HATED Napoleon Dynamite, and VASTLY LOOKED DOWN on Superbad. The first was boring one-liner forgettable comedy, while the second was just an excuse to say “fuck” and make a 90 minute movie 120+
Wow, that is not what I thought it was about at all. I mean, I thought it was the same idea but not those stupid rules BS. I was thinking more along the lines of not wasting time trying to force a relationship with someone just to have a relationship. I did not realize that was measured in # of roses on third dates.
